The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ Becomes First Song to Spend a Full Year in the Billboard Top 10

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The Weeknd's chart-topping smash Blinding Lights has set a new chart record in America, becoming the first song to spend an entire year inside the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. 

The Weeknd‘s ‘Blinding Lights’ has become the first song ever to spend an entire year in the top 10 of the US Hot 100 singles chart.Originally released as a single in November 2019, the track – which featured on the Toronto artist’s March 2020 album ‘After Hours’ – went to number one in the US on April 4 last year and has so far spent a total of 64 weeks in the Hot 100.In the latest Hot 100 chart (dated March 13) that is set to be published later today (March 9), ‘Blinding Lights’ will remain in